I’ve spent all day trying to compile the list of delegates that are going to the Republican National Convention. With 99 precincts reporting as of 5:39 p.m., I think I’ve got the list down.

Trump won 30 pledged delegates from West Virginia. That’s 88 percent of the delegates in a state where he won 77 percent of the vote. He was guaranteed the three RNC delegates-Conrad Lucas, Melody Potter and Kris Warner-when he won the popular vote.

Trump won 18 out of 22 at-large delegates. Two of the uncommitted delegates have verbally pledged their support to Trump, according to Mike Stuart, the co-chair of Donald Trump’s West Virginia campaign, but they aren’t bound to vote for him. Morrisey hasn’t endorsed Trump yet and Katrina Lewis couldn’t be reached for comment, but pledged her support to Kasich in January.

Here they are:

Candidate

Supports

Votes

County

District

Donna Boley

Trump

70675

Pleasants

1

Diana Bartley

Trump

69512

Harrison

1

Stephanie Abramowitz

Trump

69267

Kanawha

2

Vicki Dunn-Marshall

Trump

67088

Cabell

3

Gregory Baldt

Trump

66723

Hancock

1

Joe Harper

Trump

66721

Pendleton

2

Kristi Beddow

Trump

66583

Mingo

3

Anne Dandelet

Trump

65833

Cabell

3

Brian Casto

Trump

64931

Kanawha

2

Craig Evans

Trump

63683

Wayne

3

Dan Hill

Trump

63314

Fayette

3

Kevin Honaker

Trump

63004

Raleigh

3

Kristi Jeffrey

Trump

61449

Fayette

3

Stephen McElroy

Trump

55201

Harrison

1

Aaron Metz

Trump

53234

Monongalia

1

John Raese

Trump

48948

Monongalia

1

Caleb Turner

Trump

33606

Putnam

2

Michael Snelling

Trump

30173

Putnam

2

Patrick Morrisey

Uncommitted

16470

Jefferson

2

Mitch Carmichael

Uncommitted

15892

Jackson

2

Andy McKenzie

Uncommitted

12643

Ohio

1

Katrina Lewis

Kasich

9910

Marshall

1

We’re still waiting on a few more precincts to report in District 2, but I don’t see an awful lot changing with that vote. If anything, the only thing that might happen is Mitch Carmichael may get knocked out and Bob Adams may get in if there’s a precinct that went heavily for Cruz.

Trump would have won all 34 delegates if it weren’t for some rules that were put in place before the 2016 primary that limited delegates based on where they live. There will be a story about this in Friday’s paper, but here’s the rule.

“The 7 top vote getters from each Congressional District, that have been voted on by all Republican primary voters in the state, are elected as Delegates- totaling 21. (For example, this would allow for CD 3 voters to cast their vote for a Delegate candidate in CD 1 or CD 2 and visa versa)
Of the 22 At Large delegates that will be selected on the statewide ballot not more than 2 may come from the same county.”

That’s why there’s a Kasich supporter with way less votes than everyone else on my list. Lewis was actually the 60th overall and 10th in CD 1.

If you want to see the vote totals in order, for both at-large and congressional districts, here’s my spreadsheet that I used to sort through all of this. The first 22 names are in bold because those are the people who would have made the convention had the geographic rules not been in place. The people who are eliminated are in red. I only put in the county and districts for the top 75.

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The rules allow a more diverse statewide representation rather than simply the more highly populated counties. Regions have somewhat equal say. If it were the top 22, then if Kanawah had 22 candidates for Trump, ALL the delegates would likely have been from Kanawah.

With out the rules of 2 per county, due to high population, if Kanawah County had 22 people running committed to Trump, it is likely that all 22 might be from Kanawah. Is that representative of the entire state? The rest of the state would think, why even bother, my vote doesn’t count. Does it make sense to alienate the rest of the state or to include the rest of the state in the process?